Woman assaulted during home invasion

By Daniel Tepfer

Updated 6:35 am, Tuesday, December 29, 2015

BRIDGEPORT - Police are looking for a man they said beat and choked a local woman during a home invasion.

On Sunday night police said they were called to a home on Gregory Street. When they got there they said they found a 38-year-old woman lying in the front doorway of her home with a leather belt wrapped around her neck. They said she was bleeding from a head wound and had bruises on her face and she was taken to Bridgeport Hospital.

Police said the woman told them she had been in bed watching television when a man entered her bedroom, put a gun to her head and ordered her to turn over her money or he would kill her.

The man began hitting the woman in the head with the gun and choking her until she told him there was money in her purse in the kitchen.